If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  • -- Edmund Burke 埃德蒙伯克

如果我们能支配财富,我们就会富有而自由;如果财富支配我们,我们就真的很穷。

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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

我们需要的很多东西可以等待。孩子不能。现在是他的骨头成形,思想发展的时候了。我们不能对他说明天,他的名字是今天。

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

意识本身就是目的。我们折磨自己到达某个地方,而当我们到达那里时却无处可去,因为我们无处可去。

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

非凡财富的产物与对奢华的品味相结合。

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

最大的财富是欲望的匮乏。